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Giuseppe Varotti

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Italian painter

Giuseppe Varotti (Bologna, 1715- Bologna, 1780) was an Italian painter, active depicting sacred and historical subjects in a late-Baroque or Rococo style.

Mercury leads goddesses to the judgement of the Trojan prince, Paris

Biography

He trained with his father, Pier Paolo Varotti (1686-1732), a follower of Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Giuseppe Varotti painted a St Roch once in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Carpi. One of his pupils was Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (1740-1815).

References

  1. Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, pages 481.
  2. Memorie originali italiane risguardanti le belle arti, Volume 1, 1846, by Michelangelo Gualandi, M.G., page 28.


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